Bloomberg eyed Secretary of State position in Clinton's cabinet, WikiLeaks latest release of hacked emails reveals

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to be Hillary Clinton's secretary — of state.

The billionaire mogul's desire to lead the State Department under a Clinton administration was revealed Saturday in a hacked email released by WikiLeaks.

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The latest email dump also included a message detailing plans by Clinton's personal lawyer to discredit one of her husband's rape accusers.

The Bloomberg exchange began with Clinton surrogate Neera Tanden asking his aide Howard Wolfson about a 2015 report suggesting disgruntled Democrats were urging the former mayor to enter the presidential race.

"What is up," wrote Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, on June 3.

The email included a link to an article titled, "NY Dems push Bloomberg to run for President."

Wolfson shot down the report in a six-word reply. "I find the whole thing laughable," he wrote.

The Clinton campaign has declined to comment on the thousands of emails released by Wikileaks. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

"Ok. Good. I was worried you were losing it," Tanden wrote in a reply that including an alluring question. "Is there something Mike Bloomberg would want to do in his life in an Admin? Is like Ambassador to China way too small? (interesting job though)."

Wolfson replied a little more than an hour later.

"Secty of state. Which ain't gonna happen," he wrote.

The latest batch of leaked Clinton campaign emails didn't include a direct response from Tanden.

But it's clear Wolfson's suggestion wasn't rejected out of hand — Tanden forwarded it on to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

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A Bloomberg spokesman didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

In a second intriguing exchange, Clinton's lawyer David Kendall penned a lengthy email to Podesta in January after Juanita Broaddrick posted a tweet on allegations that Bill Clinton raped her in 1978 when he was the Arkansas attorney general.

Kendall wrote to Podesta calling the decades-old accusations a "slimefest." He attached four documents related to former special prosecutor Ken Starr's investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against the former President.

Broaddrick initially signed an affidavit in 1998 denying that she was raped, but Starr offered her "immunity" if she came forward during his investigation.

"Starr was seeking more evidence against the President, any way he could, and he immunized Broaddrick to protect her from any prosecution for perjury if she now changed her story. Voila! She did," Kendall wrote.